Policeman..............

[crystal**flake]

Are they allowed to ask for your phone to look at what you have just texted or just been texted??

My Miss got pulled over today cause the policeman said he saw her head look down.

[freakiness]

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@am*3 wrote:

Where would that get you Crystal.?. 

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On a TV highway patrol show

[crystal**flake]

I also think it because she is a pretty young woman.

[freddie*rooster]

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@crystal**flake wrote:

I also think it because she is a pretty young woman.

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So am I but they don't ask for my phone

[cherry*135]

Young drivers (usually alone)  do get pulled over more often than the oldies.

Lucky they didn't notice no p plates crystal...that is quite a big fine isn't it.?  They weren't doing their job properly then.

[imastawka]

Best to do as Mr Policeman says, I fear.   The charge 'perverting the

course of justice' is a wide web indeed.  And they like to use it often

[acacia_pycnantha]

No way a policeman or any other person could demand my mobile phone records.

Not going to ever happen.

Because i don't have one and never have had one.

Oh, the freedom.

At no one's beck and call

Unconcatable unless I'm at home.

[joz*garage]

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@crystal**flake wrote:

Ok........... I'm going to put a spanner in the works........

Miss had forgotten  to put her P's on the car she was driving and the policman didn't even notice that.

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well, that has provoked a few thoughts, lol

has your daughter not got her own car with permanent P plates fixed in place?

or did she take the almighty TE50 for a blast without sticking the P plates on?

[happyroo_bunji]

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@crystal**flake wrote:

The driving lights.........................

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OMG the policeman turned off her driving lights so she wouldn't blind drivers coming towards her? ~roll eyes~

[cq_tech]

That was an act of kindness, as it is illegal to drive in built-up areas with fog/driving lights switched on unnecessarily. The fine's about $187, too!

[carls*world]

If he had reasonable cause to suspect she had been using it while driving, he can ask to look at when the most recent activity took place.
Refusing could then be taken as failing to follow reasonable direction of a police officer.

At least I see that as a good thing, as he gave her some benefit of doubt. Here, you'll just be handed the fine, and if you wish to dispute it, do so in court, with whatever evidence you have. And our state government has now even given us the special privelidge of paying the court costs whichever way the case goes.

As for switching off her driving (fog) lights, that was yet another good gesture on his part, instead of fining her for contravention of Australian Road Rule 217.